A collection of 226 posts
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
A member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is spreading misinformation about new antibody treatments that protect children from serious Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections.
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
Evidence suggests that today’s common yoga practices were inspired by a popular 1924 Danish gymnastics manual.
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Heterodox Academy scholar Nafees Alam about the need to challenge political orthodoxies in the field of social work
Iona Italia talks to William Costello, an evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on incels, about what the Netflix series 'Adolescence' gets right and wrong about this group.
By helping neighbours find their way back to restaurants after Hurricane Katrina—and encouraging tourists to find their way back to the Big Easy—Tom Fitzmorris fed the soul of this most soulful city.
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and programs.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.
Vaccination against UTIs is a novel idea that holds enormous promise, but clinical trials must be well-designed and carefully analysed.
There are no quick and easy solutions to America’s illegal fentanyl problem.
A 2020 study found that black newborns attended by white doctors die at twice the rate of those in the care of black doctors. The study’s refutation last year has not altered the progressive narrative of systemic racism in medicine.
Water fluoridation is a scientifically validated public health measure. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate it is unjustified scaremongering.